The whole head is sick and the whole heart faint.

If God is for us, who can be against us?

The fear of the Lord is the beginning of wisdom.

Extraordinary afflictions are not always the punishment of extraordinary sins, but sometimes the trial of extraordinary graces.

The real satanist is not quite so easily recognized as such

The kingdom of God is within you.

With God, all things are possible.

A Christian should use these arts to the glory of God, not just as tracts, mind you, but as things of beauty to the praise of God. An art work can be a doxology in itself.

Unconditional love is an illogical notion, but such a great and powerful one.

There are few things more dangerous than inbred religious certainty.

They who forgive most shall be most forgiven.

God has individuals He has positioned for His purpose and to be used as His vessel at different time and season.

Have I have played my part well in the comedy of life? If so, clap your hands and dismiss me from the stage with applause.

My nerves came back in full force. I'd thrown myself in the deep end, and, feeling like I had no idea how to swim, I had to get back to shore somehow. "I'm sorry, " I whispered.

I wanted to be an artist. I was studying art. I wanted to be a great painter. When I went into the Navy, there wasn't much to draw at sea. So I began writing, and I began reading a lot.

All her life she [Chantal] had been carefully, heroically watching over mediocre beings who were hardly real, over things of no value.

I like to walk down Bond Street, thinking of all the things I don't desire.

You do not have to be good. You do not have to walk on your knees for a hundred miles through the desert, repenting. You only have to let the soft animal of your body love what it loves.

Number was the substance of all things.

Rich people take advice from people who are richer than they are. Poor people take advice from their friends, who are just as broke as they are.

Let us go then, you and I, When the evening is spread out against the sky